Burt Reynolds says the reboot of his hit 'Cannonball Run' needs one thing to be successful

Warner Bros. has plans to make a "Cannonball Run" reboot, with "Get Hard" director
Etan Cohen writing and directing it, as Deadline reports.

The classic 1981 comedy and its sequel starred Burt Reynolds and
an all-star cast playing characters who are competing in an
illegal cross-country road race. Both films were big box-office hits, directed by "Smokey and the
Bandit" director Hal Needham, and they featured the top stars in
entertainment of their era: Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr.,
Dean Martin, Roger Moore, Jackie Chan, Dom DeLuise, Shirley
MacLaine, and Merilu Henner, to name a few.

As Reynolds told Business Insider on Wednesday, that's just the
trick to making the new "Cannonball" a success: casting
as many big names as possible.

"You have to be able to get a lot of people nobody thinks you can
get," he said. "That's what we really had fun doing, getting
those people."

Reynolds, who's currently doing press for "The
Bandit," looking back on the making of "Smokey and
the Bandit" (it'll air on CMT later this year), said
he hasn't been contacted to be in the"Cannonball"
reboot. But he understands why Warner Bros. wants to make it.

"It made a lot of money," he said of the original franchise. "But
you have to have fun. With Sinatra, we just let him have fun and
then you just go with it. And he did have a good time [making the
film]."

If the studio takes Reynolds' advice, it will be fun to see what
A-list celebrities they're able to collect for the reboot.